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Russia says it scrambled fighter jets to intercept U.S. bomber planes over Barents Sea
ABC News ^ | July 21, 2024 | The Associated Press

Posted on 07/21/2024 7:17:17 AM PDT by McGruff

Russia said Sunday it scrambled fighter jets to intercept two U.S. military long-range bomber aircraft that approached the Russian border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic.

“The crews of the Russian fighters identified the aerial target as a pair of U.S. Air Force B-52H strategic bombers,” Moscow’s defense ministry wrote on the social media platform Telegram, specifying that the planes scrambled were MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters.

“As the Russian fighters approached, the U.S. strategic bombers turned away from the State Border of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: bidenswar; escalation; neoconsarefools; tothelastukrainian; worldwariii; ww3
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1 posted on 07/21/2024 7:17:17 AM PDT by McGruff
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2 posted on 07/21/2024 7:22:25 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Knowing Jao Bai-din, those two planes were just going to drop bales of U.S. taxpayer money on globalist partners.


3 posted on 07/21/2024 7:24:58 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: McGruff

So what? They send planes toward us to see how close they can get before we scramble. We do the same thing.

And it’s good long-range mission training.


4 posted on 07/21/2024 7:28:28 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

And the B-52’s are trucks delivering cruise missiles to deployment points. They would never penetrate Russian air space. It is interesting that the Russians saw them coming. The Ukes disabled a couple of Russian long range radars that were completely useless for the war in Ukraine, but gave the Russians long range surveillance to the south, in the direction of Diego Garcia. They used Ukrainian made cruise missiles, but I wonder if that was at the request of the Pentagon.


5 posted on 07/21/2024 7:36:07 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: libertylover

Right. Tit for Tat…


6 posted on 07/21/2024 7:52:28 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: libertylover
So what? They send planes toward us to see how close they can get before we scramble. We do the same thing.

And it’s good long-range mission training.

That was a Cold War thing.   Why are we poking the Bear now?   Don't answer, we already know.

7 posted on 07/21/2024 7:54:34 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister

Same reason the bear pokes us. They have done it pretty regular for at least 50 years.


8 posted on 07/21/2024 7:57:06 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

The Cold War never ended. Neither did the Korean War.


9 posted on 07/21/2024 7:58:17 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: McGruff

Oh please. They probe the edges of our airspace all the time. To turn around and complain about us is the height of hypocrisy.

CC


10 posted on 07/21/2024 7:59:56 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: piasa

This is equivalent to two Russian nuclear bombers flying down the Northeast coast headed towards Washington. You don’t think that would be considered a real threat?


11 posted on 07/21/2024 8:02:12 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: higgmeister

It’s become clear to the world we have a turnip for president. We have to send a message to Putin - don’t try no funny stuff.


12 posted on 07/21/2024 8:06:11 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: McGruff

It’s not Puppet Biden ordering these bombers into Russian airspace. It’s “the black man”, Shaddam IV, the 81st Padishah Emperor of House Corrino (otherwise known as Lloyd Austin), hoping to provoke the Russians into shooting down American military aircraft.

Make no mistake, the Biden junta is desperate to begin WW3. They know their time on this earth is coming to an end when Donald Trump and the patriotic imperial legions take power.

Putin is well aware of this and will refrain from any harsh response against the illegitimate Biden regime. He knows their days are numbered. /spit


13 posted on 07/21/2024 8:28:03 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: libertylover

“We do the same thing.”

And have for many years. While in the Alaskan Air Command, I spent some time at Galena Air Station in central Alaska and it was the home of a combat alert cell, or a CAC, in the mid 1980’s when I was there. It was one of a number of sites covering the Bering Sea air space like King Salmon, Clear, and Shymia based out of Elmendorf AFB. Galena was a small town, still there, along the Yukon and it has an airport that the CAC used. Anytime an aircraft approached or crossed “that line” as per the radar at Galena, or elsewhere, F-16’s, fully armed, would take over the airport for launch and go to intercept.

The sites are no longer there but radar is still on and most of it comes from the western airospace division (WADS) at what is now at Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) in south Tacoma, Washington. So it still goes on, just a little more economic. And other means of patrol are used, also. It was part of a blanket of control that other military forces were part of. For Alaska, one was Adak, navy. Galena Air STation was originally activated in 1951.

wy69


14 posted on 07/21/2024 8:28:23 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: libertylover

“We do the same thing.”

And have for many years. While in the Alaskan Air Command, I spent some time at Galena Air Station in central Alaska and it was the home of a combat alert cell, or a CAC, in the mid 1980’s when I was there. It was one of a number of sites covering the Bering Sea air space like King Salmon, Clear, and Shymia based out of Elmendorf AFB. Galena was a small town, still there, along the Yukon and it has an airport that the CAC used. Anytime an aircraft approached or crossed “that line” as per the radar at Galena, or elsewhere, F-16’s, fully armed, would take over the airport for launch and go to intercept.

The sites are no longer there but radar is still on and most of it comes from the western airospace division (WADS) at what is now at Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) in south Tacoma, Washington. So it still goes on, just a little more economic. And other means of patrol are used, also. It was part of a blanket of control that other military forces were part of. For Alaska, one was Adak, navy. Galena Air STation was originally activated in 1951.

wy69


15 posted on 07/21/2024 8:28:23 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: higgmeister
That was a Cold War thing. Why are we poking the Bear now? Don't answer, we already know.

As a commentator recently remarked, Cold War II has begun, and we're the Soviets.

16 posted on 07/21/2024 8:40:45 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: McGruff

“It was effective, Madame Biden.”


17 posted on 07/21/2024 9:00:32 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: libertylover
We do the same thing.

Yes we do. This has been going on for decades.

18 posted on 07/21/2024 9:05:27 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: logi_cal869

I doubt it was effective and may lead to Russia concluding that wider war is inevitable. They are already seeming to lean is this direction with the EU looking to build an army.


19 posted on 07/21/2024 9:09:17 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: McGruff

Are they complaining or just saying it happened? We always announce these things too.

Nothing to see here except nobody has any trust at all in this atmosphere of a possible WWIII. Which is dangerous.

Countries need some communication which we are not getting much of anymore.


20 posted on 07/21/2024 9:14:34 AM PDT by dforest
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